Letter: Bush, Reagan not to blame for unemployment rate

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Rockford Register Star

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Posted Jul. 25, 2014 at 10:00 AM

Posted Jul. 25, 2014 at 10:00 AM

Liberals must be getting tired of blaming George W. Bush for everything bad that happens. So now, in a recent letter published in this paper, Mike Cannariato goes back quite a few pages in the history books to blame Ronald Reagan for our demise — seemingly not realizing there have been four presidents between then and now.

The worst one of the four is our present one, Barack Obama, who in five-and-a-half years has maintained, through his anti-business stance, a too-high unemployment rate. Average salaries under Obama are about 5 percent less than when he took office.

Liberals like Mike and his leader Barack don’t seem to understand the more an employer pays his employees, the less competitive the employer could become. When employees demand more money, they run the risk of ending with nothing — as in jobless.

Demonstrators in Freeport against Bruce Rauner and earlier against Mitt Romney for causing their plant to close don’t recognize that both of these men were not involved in the decision of closing Sensata. With our current president and governor, did they get similar or even better positions?